[lit-ideas] Re: Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Boy

From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:33:30 EDT

In a message dated 5/14/2009 4:30:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
Interesting enthymeme. Missing premise:

P1:  All events in life are experienced.

Add to: 

P2: Death is not  experienced.

C: Therefore, death is not an event in  life.

Reconstructing logical form:

All a are b
No c are  b
Therefore, no c are a. 

Valid. And yet Socrates tells us that life  is but the learning of how to 
die. Go
figure.


Walter  O
soundness checking

----

Some say it's a sign of nettiquette  NOT to change headers, but I can't 
avoid it. I _have_ to be creative. That's one  thing.

Another is: It slightly irritates me (under the right elbow) when I see  
deep transcendental arguments under stupid irrelevant headers. 
 
For I was joking on 'beautiful' and recalled a song:
 
          beautiful,  beautiful, beautiful, beautiful boy.
 
Lennon says:
 
   Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other  plans.
 
McEvoy retorted:
 
    Death too, sometimes.
 
-- He thought he was being funny. He possibly was. It's not clear who 'you' 
 Lennon means: Sean (hardly), Lennon hisself. Consider "The death of  
Lennon"
 
      Death is what _happens_ to you...
 
but death is not an event (Witt, 6, ...) therefore.
 
must rush
 
JLS
 
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